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A teenager with a cough, fever, and poor appetite

Simona Turcu1, Samatha Sonnappa

  • 1Great Ormond Street Hospital, London WC1N 3JH, UK. sfturcu@googlemail.com

BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.)
|April 28, 2012
PubMed
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